Running Again!

Since my last posting, I have been seeing a great local physio, Danielle Cregg, at the Lindsay Park Sports Physiotherapy Clinic. When I first met her she did the routine tests to determine what my issues were and when she touched my Achilles tendon I pretty much buckled and fell to the ground! Embarrassing but nonetheless it showed my current state.

She has been placing a lot of needles in both my calves, glutes and lower back and to great effect. After treatment number one, I was back to running the next day and since then I have been back up to 90min of straight running on my long run day. I am not able to yet push my running abilities but my goals now are to re-build some resiliency in my running muscles as I am several weeks away from IMC.

It is finally nice to see progress and to know that the issue is not really my Achilles tendon but related to a series of trigger points throughout my calves. IN fact, when I feel and issue in my Achilles as I run I can stop and massage the trigger points and it feels like a re-set button has been pushed and I can resume running pain free. That is until it flares up again but that is becoming less and less now.

So, touch wood now until August 29th!

JVD